John Grafman embraced the California dream during his teens and twenties. Year after year, blasting through the canyons that connect the valley to Malibu became a way of life. It was all in the name ...

Ever since we started controlling our computers with a mouse, icons have been central to our operating systems. By clicking on small, simple images representing a folder, trash can, or magnifying ...

To the designer Susan Kare, designing icons was about solving ‘the little puzzle of making an image fit a metaphor’. Forty years later, that challenge remains.

When it appeared in 1984, the Macintosh blew people away with its graphical interface, its mouse, and its unusual industrial design. It also charmed customers with its cute, approachable icons, from ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for ...

On Wednesday, Instagram's CEO Kevin Systrom unveiled the photo app's new icon. This is the first time the Instagram app icon has changed since the introduction of Apple's flatter software design that ...